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Name: William David Alsobrook Age: 27 Hometown: Leesburg Branch of service: Army Military job: A staff sergeant and a jump master with the 82nd Airborne Division Relatives: Wife, Elizabeth Hammond Alsobrook of Fruitland Park; parents, Linda and Lib O'Connor of Tavares, and the late William W. Alsobrook of Leesburg About Alsobrook: Billy and his wife both graduated from Leesburg High School, and he went into the Army right after graduation. In his last letter home he wrote about being in a war, "My old dad did it, my new dad did it, now it's my turn.

APALACHICOLA -- Tropical Storm Bonnie sloshed ashore here Thursday but caused little damage or flooding -- a relief to residents of the already water-soaked Panhandle. "What you see is what we've got," said a bemused Phil Worley, an emergency-services manager monitoring the storm at the Apalachicola Airport where the skies were bright gray and defiantly dry. With only scattered showers Thursday, Worley said there was just minor flooding reported, largely because of recent rains that had already saturated the ground.

A former Leesburg High School art teacher has filed a slander suit against an 18-year-old former student.The suit filed Friday in circuit court by Teri Alsobrook asks for damages and a public apology from Tammi Davis, a senior at the school.Alsobrook, 26, taught at the high school last year and resumed classes in the fall.The Wildwood woman was suspended in November after allegations of misconduct, which are being investigated by the Department of Education's Professional Practices Services.

Name: William David Alsobrook Age: 27 Hometown: Leesburg Branch of service: Army Military job: A staff sergeant and a jump master with the 82nd Airborne Division Relatives: Wife, Elizabeth Hammond Alsobrook of Fruitland Park; parents, Linda and Lib O'Connor of Tavares, and the late William W. Alsobrook of Leesburg About Alsobrook: Billy and his wife both graduated from Leesburg High School, and he went into the Army right after graduation. In his last letter home he wrote about being in a war, "My old dad did it, my new dad did it, now it's my turn.

A two-car accident on Monday sent three people, including two children, to the hospital.The accident occurred about 8 a.m. at the corner of Alfred Street and Joanna Avenue, Tavares police Lt. Kendell Alsobrook said.A Ford pickup driven by Roger Coffey, 25, of Tavares, was headed south on Alfred Street when a Chevrolet Corsica pulled in front of him at Joanna Avenue, Alsobrook said.The car was driven by Robin Carey, 29, of Tavares, who was traveling with her two sons, Cameron, 2, and Michael, 7, officials said.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The presidential library holding Bill Clinton's memorabilia will include plenty of golf clubs and a touch of Elvis, according to David E. Alsobrook, the archivist tapped to oversee the moving of tons of materials from Washington. He said Thursday that items will begin arriving as early as next month.

A woman died Tuesday afternoon when her car was rear-ended and forced into the path of an oncoming Ford Bronco.Police identified the woman Roberta Zolton, 48, of Yalaha.The accident occurred about 5:15 p.m. at County Road 561 and the Lane Park Cutoff, police said. The entire passenger side of a Honda Civic was smashed in by a Bronco going south on the road, said Tavares police Lt. Ken Alsobrook.Police speculated Zolton, the driver of the Honda, had been trying to turn left onto the side street when a Chevrolet Cavalier struck the Honda in the rear.

A five-year veteran Tavares police officer has been verbally reprimanded and ordered to take remedial training after a gun was found in the rear seat of his patrol car last month.Master Officer Michael Poole was reprimanded Wednesday by Police Chief John LaFond, who disciplined him for not following proper procedures during and after an arrest, Tavares police Lt. Kendell Alsobrook said.Poole was punished for failing to adequately search a prisoner before transporting him to the Lake County Jail, and for failing to search the car afterward, Alsobrook said.

Although authorities are still trying to find two men who escaped from the Lake County Jail last week, Tavares police said that the investigation is costly and that they don't have the staff to handle it.John A. Keller, 29, of Apopka, and Donald E. Karch, 36, of Chico, Texas, escaped Aug. 4 through a restroom window in the jail's third-floor medical ward. The window didn't have shatterproof glass, and they broke the glass to get free.''We have original jurisdiction because the jail is in our city,'' Acting Police Chief Kendell Alsobrook said Tuesday.

Everyone agreed that post No. 8 would be the perfect position for Smooth As Glass in the $15,000 Future Champions Stake on Saturday night at Seminole Greyhound Park in Casselberry. As luck would have it, post No. 8 is where Smooth As Glass will be.''We've been thinking 8 all week,'' said Cary Alsobrook, owner of the Charter Kennel. Alsobrook couldn't stop smiling when his trainer, Paul Parsons, stepped up first at the post-position ceremony and drew No. 8.The leading qualifier in the ''Puppy Stakes'' field and the leading winner on the track, Smooth As Glass must be favored from the far outside in Saturday's 12th race.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The presidential library holding Bill Clinton's memorabilia will include plenty of golf clubs and a touch of Elvis, according to David E. Alsobrook, the archivist tapped to oversee the moving of tons of materials from Washington. He said Thursday that items will begin arriving as early as next month.

They're not writing speeding tickets in this tiny Sumter County community like they used to.Only a few months ago, Center Hill had earned a national reputation as a speed trap.The 10-member police force, which had been writing more speeding tickets than any other community in the county the past several years, is down to a lone full-time officer, Sgt. Mike Gray.``I'm the only one left - I'll be the last one out the door,'' said Gray, who speculated that the future of the city department is in question.

''Shakedown Shorty'' has some explaining to do after pepper-spraying a 54-year-old woman Monday suffering from diabetes and a bad heart.Center Hill police Officer Frank Moore - who was nicknamed ''Shakedown Shorty'' by town residents angered over what they believe to be police harassment - was placed on administrative leave, with pay, by Police Chief Kendall Alsobrook while the incident is investigated.Alsobrook said he has approached both the Sumter County Sheriff's Office and the State Attorney's Office about possibly handling that investigation.

One of the first mailmen ever to work in Lake County was W.C.G. Kilgore, who came to the area in 1853 with his father, W.J. Kilgore, when he was 9 years old.The senior Kilgore had been a schoolteacher in Newberry, S.C. When he was killed in a hunting accident, his widow remarried and the family moved to Apopka and later to a home three miles south of Crow's Bluff on the St. Johns River.In 1859, when Kilgore was 15, he got a job carrying the mail from Hawkinsville, as Crow's Bluff was called originally, to Adamsville in Sumter County, a distance of 50 miles.

While authorities still are trying to find two men who escaped from the Lake County Jail last week, Tavares police said the investigation is costly and they don't have the staff to handle it.''To be perfectly honest, we don't have the manpower to do it,'' Acting Police Chief Kendell Alsobrook said.Tavares police said they are burdened by calls to the jail on West Main Street and crime investigations.City taxpayers are paying the bill, rather than the whole county, because the Lake Sheriff's Office turned over the jail operation to the Lake County Commission two years ago. The city since has been responsible for law enforcement at the jail.

Although authorities are still trying to find two men who escaped from the Lake County Jail last week, Tavares police said that the investigation is costly and that they don't have the staff to handle it.John A. Keller, 29, of Apopka, and Donald E. Karch, 36, of Chico, Texas, escaped Aug. 4 through a restroom window in the jail's third-floor medical ward. The window didn't have shatterproof glass, and they broke the glass to get free.''We have original jurisdiction because the jail is in our city,'' Acting Police Chief Kendell Alsobrook said Tuesday.

Outgoing Louisiana State football coach Bill Arnsparger, who Friday was endorsed as a finalist for the athletic director's job at the University of Florida, never withdrew his name from consideration despite saying he had done so after receiving criticism from irate LSU football fans.Al Alsobrook, vice president of university relations, said from his home in Gainesville Friday that Arnsparger never officially withdrew his name, making him a candidate all along. Arnsparger and three other candidates were endorsed by the school's search committee.

A flashlight and set of keys remain on the fishing pier. Later, the missing woman's shoe washes ashore.Tavares police Lt. Kendall Alsobrook scans the 7,000 acres of thrashing gray water in Lake Eustis and sighs. He assembles the team and equipment needed to complete a macabre duty familiar to law enforcement agencies: finding the body.It is a meticulous and gruesome science involving everything from cell-sniffing bloodhounds to the latest computerized depth finders. It's a skill that, because of Central Florida's nearly 2,000 lakes and burgeoning population, is in demand now more than ever.